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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.154
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Study for "Terpsichore and Euterpe"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1947
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309075

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and purple fiber-tip ink on cream wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
actual: 51.2 x 67 cm (20 3/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, u.r.: David / Smith 1947
  • inscription: u.r., black ink, in artist's hand: For BC Fab.
  • inscription: back of frame (now missing): David Smith / Working drawing for "Terpsichore & Euterpe" (coll: L.O.) / Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret, Conn. [see notation in curatorial file]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1974.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Copyright
© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.154
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Sculpture of David Smith: A Handlist, checklist, Washington Gallery of Modern Art and Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA and Washington DC, 1966 - 1967), no. 160
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), no. 36
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 238, p. 349, p. 353 as fig. 172
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 16, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/1971 - 06/07/1971
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004

Verification Level

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